There have been a lot more questions than answers so far this season for a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team with 20 new starters.
Who’s going to be the guy? Who’s going to be the guys? Almost all the previous guys are gone, so new guys have to emerge.
There’s still a lot to figure out, and a challenging nonconference schedule in the first month hasn’t made getting all the answers — or even most of them — easy for seventh-year head coach Rusty Wright and his staff. But on Friday night before Saturday’s game against Stetson, former UTC defensive lineman Mike Makins, a two-time All-American from 1983-86 and a member of the school’s athletic hall of fame, stopped in to have some words with the current Mocs.
“He came in and asked us who we were as a team, and we really didn’t know,” senior running back Justus Durant said. “We knew we all needed to buy into the program.”
Saturday’s matchup at Finley Stadium may have yielded some answers, and it certainly produced a victory.